We already knew that there was an authoritarian element in the wingnut fringe. Well, WorldNutDaily's Erik Rush--the same guy who first started the feeding frenzy over Jeremiah Wright--just did a really good job of revealing that current for all to see. Rush thinks that job number one in the event of a Romney victory, one of the first priorities should be to prosecute leading Democrats and journalists for treason.
Assuming that all goes well and that we are rid of Obama in January, there will be a nation to repair – but what about the causes for this necessity? Yes, many Americans are now cognizant of the fact that progressives have “progressed” America dangerously close to being a Marxist-socialist nation and that we are collectively responsible for not having checked that progress. But aside from grass-roots efforts toward electoral and political reform, there are other widespread, organized threats to America’s ongoing concern as a representative republic with guaranteed personal liberties, free speech foremost among them.
Here, I am speaking of the press, the conglomeration of national broadcast, digital and print media organizations that has been incrementally packed with ideological liberals and socialists, and so has disqualified itself as the impartial government watchdog it once was. During my lifetime, I have seen the press become an advance force for social engineering and global socialism. The degree to which they have deceived Americans and enabled the agenda of radicals in recent decades is beyond shame.
However, Rush's biggest examples of such supposedly nefarious behavior from the press proves just how shabby his argument is. For instance, he thinks Candy Crowley deliberately planned her fact-check of Romney's false claim that Obama didn't promptly condemn the Benghazi attacks as an act of terror. Last time I checked, it is not bias to call out blatant falsehoods. It's good journalism. Rush is also peeved at KPHO-TV in Phoenix for inadvertently declaring Obama the winner of the election while testing its election return software.
How does Rush want to deal with it? Treason trials.
It is improbable that the framers of the Constitution anticipated a situation in which the press were entirely given over to seditious, anti-American policies. If they had, it is likely that their modus operandi would be similar to that for any faction found guilty of high crimes. Trials for treason and the requisite sentences would apply, and I would have no qualms about seeing such sentences executed, no matter how severe.
What Rush is proposing here is beyond McCarthyism. This is fascism, plain and simple.
For all of the whining on the fringe about the prospect of hate-speech laws, if it were up to Rush Congress would enact laws that would go well beyond such laws.
In addition to the advent of powerful alternative media sources, I believe it will be necessary to codify – or reaffirm – the nature of crimes against the Constitution and the American people. In this manner, we can thwart the designs not only of the press, but all global socialists operating in America.
Those whose speech and actions impinge upon the God-given rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution are, by definition, excepted from protection under the First Amendment (as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment). This is a very important concept to consider, because it is based on these presumptions of protected speech and equal protection for all that progressives and socialists have engaged in their predation upon our liberties.
And yet somehow, Rush manages to say with a straight face that the left seeks an Orwellian vision for this country. Pot, meet kettle.
To be fair, at least some of the commenters at WorldNutDaily called Rush out for this. Still, the fact this even ran, to my mind, says even more about Joseph Farah than the fact Jerome Corsi is on his payroll as well.